Phase Shifting Index Closing Celebration
Join us for a screening and conversation with Jeremy Shaw as we celebrate the closing of Phase Shifting Index.
Final day to see Phase Shifting Index—for the full experience of the seven channel work please come at least 35 minutes before the exhibition closes at 5:00 pm.
5pm Doors
5:15pm Screening of Quickeners
5:45pm Conversation between Jeremy Shaw and The Polygon’s Audain Chief Curator Monika Szewczyk
6:15pm Reception
RSVPs are helpful
Quickeners
Dir: Jeremy Shaw
36 mins
2014
This is the first film in the Quantification Trilogy, which Jeremy Shaw completed before embarking on Phase Shifting Index and which establishes the futuristic storyline narrative ground is expanded upon in the work currently on view at The Polygon Gallery.
Synopsis:
Quickeners: They live about 500 years after us and belong to the entirely rational- thinking species of Quantum Human, who are immortal and connected to each other through an abstract entity called “The Hive”. However, Quickeners have a developed a rare disorder named “Human Atavism Syndrome” - or H.A.S.- that prompts them to unexplainably desire to engage in long-forgotten behavioural patterns of humans. Detached from Hive, the Quickeners fall into an ecstatic state in which they sing, clap, cry, scream, dance and handle poisonous snakes.
Image: Jeremy Shaw, Quickeners, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.